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In Lego Lord of the Rings (which is obviously it's own continuity, which draws from both the Peter Jackson movies and the books), Sauron sends people flying by the dozens with swings of his hammer. Lego Sauron (who is around 5 times taller than a lego minifigure person) rips up the ground by slashing at it with his mace and dredges up lava. Lego Sauron smashing the ground creates a miniature volcano.

Mount Doom erupts in a devastating eruption (as the Dark Lord stirs).

The Tower has the ability to teleport.

From Shadow of Mordor, we see the Watcher which resides in the Nurnen Bay attacking a ship and splitting it in two. The Watcher has destroyed the Fishery before, and is described as a demon of the sea and a furious spirit (which might make it a Maiar, at least in this continuity).

Leonard Nimoy (known for playing Spock in Star Trek) once wrote a song about Bilbo Baggins, called The Ballard of Bilbo Baggins.

Blind Guardian was far from the only musicians to sing of Tolkien's world; another example of a band who's written songs about Middle-Earth is Windrose (who mainly sing of the dwarves). To Erebor (from the album Stonehymn). tells of the journey to Erebor and how Thorin will return to be King Under the Mountain. The Breed of Durin (from the album Wardens of the West) is about the dwarves and their fear and hatred of Smaug, and how they will reclaim their homes and riches no matter what. Diggy Diggy Hole (from the album Wintersaga) is about dwarves. It can be seen as simply being about dwarves in general and not just Middle-Earth, but the line "we can never dig too deep" might be an alusion to the Balrog (and how they can, in fact, dig too deep).

Lord of the Rings by Blind Guardian is another song by Blind Guardian about Lord of the Rings, from their album Somewhere Far Beyond.

Looking into Lord of the Rings Online (and I'll look further in the future no doubt). As always, Lord of the Rings Online is it's own continuity (I feel it's important to say this after introducing any new version of the mythos). To start off, different servers are referred to as different worlds. https://www.lotro.com/news/lotro-legendary-worlds-en

While it's not got as much as MERP, Lord of the Rings: The Role Playing Game (not to be confused with Lord of the Rings Roleplaying, which I'll get to eventually) is another roleplaying game set in the world of Middle-Earth. This TTRPG ties in with the Peter Jackson movies, but also draws off the books some. As always, I think it's best to treat this as it's own continuity (as with every version or adaption of the universe, unless directly confirmed otherwise). Magic suffuses all of Middle-Earth, and all the races of Middle-Earth can use magic and cast spells (even orcs). Mastery of Shapes allows the caster (a wizard or magician or sorcerer) to transform into an animal or bird (but not a fell beast or dragon). Lightning sends forth a bolt of lightning. Power of the Land allows the magic user to call upon the land & weather and make it rise against their enemies in the radius of one mile, although this spell must be sustained by the caster. Springtime allows the magic user to...

As all the spells in Spell Law can be used in MERP (and some of these spells directly appear in the MERP books), it's fair enough to use them. And oh boy this has some impressive spells! Let's start with the most impressive of all; time travel. As part of Time's Bridge, the caster can travel back in time physically for a time, and potentially change the past. The other spells in Time's Bridge allow visions of the past and the future. Starlights meanwhile, allows for the manipulation of light for seeing and attacking (including focusing pre-existing moonlight and starlight into an attack). Soul Destruction allows the caster to damage the very soul of their victim, including but not limited to body swapping, demonic possession, ripping out a chunk of the victims soul and ripping the victims soul out (abet temporarily). Fluid Destruction has spells which allow for the evaporation of up to 1,000,000 cubic feet of water and banishing rain. Telekenisis allows for the use of...

I'll look over it eventually most likely (as I'm hoping to look over as much as I can).

The Notion Club Papers is one of Tolkien's unfinished time travel stories, and was eventually published post-humously among the Unfinished Tales as part of the book Sauron Defeated by his son Christopher Tolkien. I hope to dive much deeper into The Notion Club Papers at some point in the future, but it is quite interesting featuring travel via dreams across time and space, from different solar systems to the deep past of Numenor. Among these distant interstellar worlds is Ellor Eshúrizel, which is shaped with loveliness of many minds in thought, but organic life does not exist there (although the En-keladim, an extraterestrial race, do dwell there).

As there is apparently quite a lot of compatibility between Rolemaster and MERP (namely the use of Rolemaster Spells in MERP being official and encouraged), I decided to check out the Rolemaster books to see what they said on this subject. And sure enough, what they said did not disappoint. Rolemaster is a system which can be used for the most part to set up your own world, or if to play as a pre-existing world, the examples being Bladelands or Middle-Earth (Rolemaster, Bladeslands and MERP are all made by the same company, ICE).

The Voyage of Éarendel the Evening Star was the first ever Middle-Earth prose to exist officially, predating even The Hobbit (and perhaps even Middle-Earth itself), and tells of the voyages of Éarendel.

In a draft letter to one Mr Rang, Tolkien confirms that Earendel is infact what we know as the planet Venus (or the Morningstar). The character of Earendel was from a poem he'd written in 1914, and then adopted into his mythology (originally, Earendel set sail from the Sun).

From the Peter Jackson movies; Arwen invokes the river to come rushing and wash the Nazgul and their horses away (in the form of great horses made of water). This sequence in the script, which compares the deluge of water to a dam breaking. https://imsdb.com/scripts/Lord-of-the-Rings-Fellowship-of-the-Ring,-The.html

Smaug moves so fast that he's described as being akin to a spark of fire rushing towards Lake Town.

At the end of Out Of The Silent Planet (by C.S. Lewis), the last sentence says as the way to the way to the other planets seems to be closed, and as such, any future space-travel would have to be time travel as well. It's possible that this is an attempt to connect Lewis own Space Trilogy with Tolkien's as yet unwritten time-travel story (both of them would write a story based on a prompt; Lewis would write a space travel story while Tolkien would write a time travel story; Lewis finished his trilogy while Tolkien attempted to write a time travel story twice but never finished either). As per before a page or so back (when I mentioned Lewis tried to connect Tolkiens mythos to the Space Trilogy), make of this as you will, as Tolkien himself doesn't seem to confirm nor deny it. Curiously though, both The Space Trilogy (That Hideous Strength in particular) as well as both of Tolkien's unfinished time travel stories involved seeing places across time and space via dreams.

In another letter to one Major R. Bowen, Tolkien says that the Ainur take physical form similar to that of the Children of God (which he goes on to say this is an actual physical form, and not just an illusion), that taking material form requires energy of the spirit (or will power), which in Saurons case, took longer after the battle with Galgalad and Elendil than after the Downfall of Numenor. In a letter to one Rhona Beare, Tolkien says that Sauron corrupting Numenor required him expending energy, and as thus needed time for his own powers to return (this means that Sauron corrupting Numenor was not merely him spreading lies, but actually spreading his dark power, which he needed time to regain his power from). As a response, Eru reshaped the world as per the request of Manwe. There is also the implication that not even Eru can destroy spirits with free wills.

In a letter to one Eileen Edger, Tolkien states that if Gandalf were to face Sauron in the 3rd Age, perhaps Gandalf could have won, as Sauron was weakened from not only the lack of the One Ring, but also from corrupting and dominating others.